Psychedelics dissolve the rigid boundaries of ordinary perception, revealing that reality is not as fixed as we assume. One of their deepest lessons is the ability to hold paradox—to sit with contradictions without feeling the need to resolve them. Consider these: You are both insignificant and infinitely important. Psychedelics can make you feel like a tiny speck in the vast cosmos while also showing that your existence is deeply interconnected with everything. Both can be true. Reality is an illusion, yet it feels absolutely real. The everyday world can seem like a construct of the mind, yet that doesn’t make it meaningless. In fact, it might make it more profound. You have free will, but everything is predetermined. Psychedelics can blur the line between agency and destiny, making you feel like you are both the driver and the passenger of life. Death is the end, yet life is eternal. Ego death can give the sense that individual identity is fleeting, while at the same time, life itself continues in infinite forms. Pain and joy, suffering and beauty—two sides of the same coin. Psychedelics can make suffering feel like an integral part of the human experience rather than something to escape. Holding paradox means not rushing to find a single truth, but rather allowing multiple truths to coexist. It’s the ability to say, "I don’t need a final answer; I can simply be with the mystery." Psychedelics don’t give you answers—they give you better questions and a deeper capacity to sit with them.